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lumberjim 10-13-2007 10:50 AM

wait....i meant....my talent is believing my own bs.

Cicero 10-13-2007 11:36 AM

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Originally Posted by monster (Post 394544)
A local radio "personality" was saying that their curse is new TV series. Each season she gets into a few new shows, and every single one she gets into gets cancelled. My curse is gas prices. When I fill up, the gas price immediatley drops 20c. If I need to fill but am late and have no time to stop, the price jumps 20c before I start my journey home.

My special talent, though, is finding needles in haystacks. If you lose something tiny in an impossible place, I will find it, and pretty quickly. Recently, I 've found a tiny (eyeglasses) screw on a huge grey "sculptured" carpet, and a regular-sized bolt on a half mile stretch of road.

I'm like you monster- I can find anything lost on a whim. This is also my curse because it seems too uncanny that I could find a lost item so quickly. This makes it look like I misplaced it or tried to steal it....So I have decided only recently to quit helping.

This happened for the first time in memory when I was about 10, and I recovered my grandmother's wallet. (It was behind her drunk, I mean, wet bar) From that moment on I should have recognized that this kind of uncanny talent is a curse and could get me in trouble.....
:p

DanaC 10-13-2007 12:46 PM

Haha. I also have the finding talent. Even now, from time to time my ex will call up in distress having lost something important (a wallet full of cash, a telephone number on a scrap of paper, a pen-drive) and I'll end up down his house helping him look.

I tend to be better at finding other peoples' stuff....and I don't have to have been in the house before, or be at all familiar with my surroundings. I think I just understand what happens to 'stuff' in the course of a day and the kinds of places it settle in :P

My curse is generally being able to see both sides of an argument. Does my mates' heads in from time to time. When one of them is angry at someone and expressing that to me, it isn't always helpful to start putting the other person's point, or explaining the other person's actions to them...

rkzenrage 10-14-2007 05:03 AM

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Originally Posted by bluecuracao (Post 394595)
No, you can't. Hate to be the one to tell you.

LOL! Thanks for that.

TheMercenary 10-14-2007 08:35 AM

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Originally Posted by Flint (Post 394549)
But my special talent/curse isn't finding things, it's Asperger's.

That explains a lot. :eyebrow:

SteveDallas 10-14-2007 01:04 PM

My special talent is my biting, acerbic sense of humor.

My curse is that I end up using it around people who end up finding it offensive and/or insulting.

elSicomoro 10-14-2007 03:21 PM

I can touch my tongue over the tip of my nose. I used to also be able to lick my own boobs, but I can't really do that anymore.

DucksNuts 10-14-2007 06:51 PM

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Originally Posted by SteveDallas (Post 394967)
My special talent is my biting......

That was all I needed.

ferret88 10-15-2007 12:44 PM

My curse is that I have an invisible-to-me indicator of some kind that says to people "This is is a good listener and doesn't mind if you spend the next 45 minutes telling him your life story or about how the person you're dating is an idiot but you still love him/her." The worst part is that this indicator must hide my give-a sh!t meter, because they go on and on and my meter is at 0.

My talent is recall of trivia. Many kinds. For little if any good reason.

lumberjim 10-15-2007 01:34 PM

ooooh...good one. i think i have that too. mine comes with a crazy guy lure built in too.

rkzenrage 10-15-2007 01:45 PM

Curse, I am a nut-magnet.
So is my wife.
Crazy people are attracted to each of us. When we are together it is awful!
There can be 1000 people on a street, the craziest person will make a bee-line for one of us to exorcise their particular fantasy without provocation or prompting of any kind. We can't figure it out or get it to stop.
Our friends and family think it's a hoot.

HungLikeJesus 10-15-2007 01:55 PM

rk, Is that why you're attracted to each other?

rkzenrage 10-15-2007 02:02 PM

Refuge from the nuts? I don't know.

SteveDallas 10-15-2007 02:06 PM

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Originally Posted by rkzenrage (Post 395380)
Curse, I am a nut-magnet.
So is my wife.

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Originally Posted by HungLikeJesus (Post 395384)
rk, Is that why you're attracted to each other?

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Originally Posted by rkzenrage (Post 395386)
Refuge from the nuts? I don't know.

Umm... that would be one interpretation of HLJ's question. :cool:

Sheldonrs 10-15-2007 02:18 PM

""With great power comes great responsibility." This is my gift, my curse. Who am I? I'm Spider-man."


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